Improvement in shoe-lacing fastenings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

BENJAMIN B. CHOATE, OF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,871, dated June 17, 1873; application led Y Aprn 16,1873. Y

the State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Shoe-Lacing Fastening; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented iu the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation; Fig. 2, an end view; Fig. 3, a top view. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section, of it.

ln making the article, a piece of wire of the requisite length is first arched at its middle in manner to form a recess in it, as shown at a.. Next, each part from the recess outward is to be bent in a serpentine form, as shown at b c d, the bends of one half of the wire being run in opposite directions to those of the other in order that the portion d of one of the halves may be over that of the other half, as

' represented. Next, each half of the wire is bent at a right angle or thereabout, and next,

l again, at such an angle so as to form a shank,

' to operate with the recess or arch a and the shanks e e. The eyes f are for fastening the` u article to the upper part of the tongue of the lacing-slit of a gaiter, shoe, or boot.

Fig. 6 shows the fastening in its application to a shoe with the lacing bela-yed upon the fastenin g.

After the lacing may have been drawn tightly it is to be wound one or more times about the two Shanks e e, after which it should be sprung between the recess and the lower presser or wing, and next between the upper presser or wing and into the recess. The two wings thus serve as,` jaws to hold the lacing within the recess a.

The article saves all necessity of tying to- Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNow. 

